Cpl Galloway was buried in Elmwood nearly 5 years after he was killed. The obituary is dated Feb 7, 1955. Online sources indicate that he was in the 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team.
His obituary says he was a native of Florence, South Carolina; military sources have his place of birth as Wilson county, North Carolina. His parents were Charles Friendly Galloway and Mary Leila Jones Galloway Driver from Florence county, and his siblings were born in Florence. I think he was also born in Florence.
His mother was residing in North Carolina at the time of his enlistment.
His obituary and his stone give his age as 16. A 16 year old and a corporal seem unlikely, but apparently is true.
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Cpl Galloway's Funeral Tuesday
Military funeral services for Cpl David Lewis Galloway, 16 year old Florence and Manning soldier who was killed in action in Korea in 1950, will be conducted at 3 o'clock Tuesday afternoon from the graveside in Elmwood Cemetery.
The young soldier, the son of Mrs Mary J Driver of Columbia, was temporarily interred in the United Nations Military Cemetery near Pyongyang, North Korea, but was returned to the United States government by the Communists during a mutual exchange.
Services Tuesday will be conducted by a chaplain from Fort Jackson and the Rev V M Forrester, pastor of the Ridgecrest Baptist Church. Appropriate military honors are scheduled.
Young Galloway was born in Florence, but was a member of the First Baptist Church at Manning.
Survivors include his mother; two sisters, Miss Mildred Virginia Galloway of Columbia and Mrs Mary Ruth Leafendol of Orangeburg; two brothers, James Edward Galloway of Florence and Charles Galloway of Florida; and his maternal grandfather, Lonnie L Jones of Johnsonville.
The body is scheduled to arrive in Columbia at 6:40 Tuesday morning.
The State; Date: 02-07-1955; Page: 7; Location: Columbia, South Carolina
∼CPL DAVID LOUIS GALLOWAY
187TH AIRBORNE REGIMENTAL COMBAT TEAM
I CO 3 BN
REGIMENTAL COMBAT TEAM
ARMY
HOSTILE, DIED (KIA)
DATE OF LOSS: OCTOBER 21, 1950
SERVICE NUMBER: RA14313995
BORN: NOVEMBER 26, 1931
HOME OR PLACE OF ENLISTMENT
COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA
RICHLAND COUNTY
LOCATION OR BATTLE ZONE: AIR DROP SUNCHON - SUKCHON
TOWN OR AREA: OPA-RI
BURIAL LOCATION
ELMWOOD CEMETERY, COLUMBIA, SC
Comments: Corporal Galloway was a member of the 187th Airborne Infantry Regimental Combat Team. He was Killed in Action while fighting the enemy in North Korea on October 21, 1950.
Corporal Galloway was awarded the Purple Heart, the Combat Infantryman Badge, the Korean Service Medal, the United Nations Service Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Korean Presidential Unit Citation and the Republic of Korea War Service Medal.
KOREAN WAR PROJECT KEY NO: 10171
See Memorial #132986169 for final interment.
David Louis Galloway
His obituary says he was a native of Florence, South Carolina; military sources have his place of birth as Wilson county, North Carolina. His parents were Charles Friendly Galloway and Mary Leila Jones Galloway Driver from Florence county, and his siblings were born in Florence. I think he was also born in Florence.
His mother was residing in North Carolina at the time of his enlistment.
His obituary and his stone give his age as 16. A 16 year old and a corporal seem unlikely, but apparently is true.
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Cpl Galloway's Funeral Tuesday
Military funeral services for Cpl David Lewis Galloway, 16 year old Florence and Manning soldier who was killed in action in Korea in 1950, will be conducted at 3 o'clock Tuesday afternoon from the graveside in Elmwood Cemetery.
The young soldier, the son of Mrs Mary J Driver of Columbia, was temporarily interred in the United Nations Military Cemetery near Pyongyang, North Korea, but was returned to the United States government by the Communists during a mutual exchange.
Services Tuesday will be conducted by a chaplain from Fort Jackson and the Rev V M Forrester, pastor of the Ridgecrest Baptist Church. Appropriate military honors are scheduled.
Young Galloway was born in Florence, but was a member of the First Baptist Church at Manning.
Survivors include his mother; two sisters, Miss Mildred Virginia Galloway of Columbia and Mrs Mary Ruth Leafendol of Orangeburg; two brothers, James Edward Galloway of Florence and Charles Galloway of Florida; and his maternal grandfather, Lonnie L Jones of Johnsonville.
The body is scheduled to arrive in Columbia at 6:40 Tuesday morning.
The State; Date: 02-07-1955; Page: 7; Location: Columbia, South Carolina
∼CPL DAVID LOUIS GALLOWAY
187TH AIRBORNE REGIMENTAL COMBAT TEAM
I CO 3 BN
REGIMENTAL COMBAT TEAM
ARMY
HOSTILE, DIED (KIA)
DATE OF LOSS: OCTOBER 21, 1950
SERVICE NUMBER: RA14313995
BORN: NOVEMBER 26, 1931
HOME OR PLACE OF ENLISTMENT
COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA
RICHLAND COUNTY
LOCATION OR BATTLE ZONE: AIR DROP SUNCHON - SUKCHON
TOWN OR AREA: OPA-RI
BURIAL LOCATION
ELMWOOD CEMETERY, COLUMBIA, SC
Comments: Corporal Galloway was a member of the 187th Airborne Infantry Regimental Combat Team. He was Killed in Action while fighting the enemy in North Korea on October 21, 1950.
Corporal Galloway was awarded the Purple Heart, the Combat Infantryman Badge, the Korean Service Medal, the United Nations Service Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Korean Presidential Unit Citation and the Republic of Korea War Service Medal.
KOREAN WAR PROJECT KEY NO: 10171
See Memorial #132986169 for final interment.
David Louis Galloway
Cpl Galloway was buried in Elmwood nearly 5 years after he was killed. The obituary is dated Feb 7, 1955. Online sources indicate that he was in the 187th Airborne Regimental Combat Team.
His obituary says he was a native of Florence, South Carolina; military sources have his place of birth as Wilson county, North Carolina. His parents were Charles Friendly Galloway and Mary Leila Jones Galloway Driver from Florence county, and his siblings were born in Florence. I think he was also born in Florence.
His mother was residing in North Carolina at the time of his enlistment.
His obituary and his stone give his age as 16. A 16 year old and a corporal seem unlikely, but apparently is true.
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Cpl Galloway's Funeral Tuesday
Military funeral services for Cpl David Lewis Galloway, 16 year old Florence and Manning soldier who was killed in action in Korea in 1950, will be conducted at 3 o'clock Tuesday afternoon from the graveside in Elmwood Cemetery.
The young soldier, the son of Mrs Mary J Driver of Columbia, was temporarily interred in the United Nations Military Cemetery near Pyongyang, North Korea, but was returned to the United States government by the Communists during a mutual exchange.
Services Tuesday will be conducted by a chaplain from Fort Jackson and the Rev V M Forrester, pastor of the Ridgecrest Baptist Church. Appropriate military honors are scheduled.
Young Galloway was born in Florence, but was a member of the First Baptist Church at Manning.
Survivors include his mother; two sisters, Miss Mildred Virginia Galloway of Columbia and Mrs Mary Ruth Leafendol of Orangeburg; two brothers, James Edward Galloway of Florence and Charles Galloway of Florida; and his maternal grandfather, Lonnie L Jones of Johnsonville.
The body is scheduled to arrive in Columbia at 6:40 Tuesday morning.
The State; Date: 02-07-1955; Page: 7; Location: Columbia, South Carolina
∼CPL DAVID LOUIS GALLOWAY
187TH AIRBORNE REGIMENTAL COMBAT TEAM
I CO 3 BN
REGIMENTAL COMBAT TEAM
ARMY
HOSTILE, DIED (KIA)
DATE OF LOSS: OCTOBER 21, 1950
SERVICE NUMBER: RA14313995
BORN: NOVEMBER 26, 1931
HOME OR PLACE OF ENLISTMENT
COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA
RICHLAND COUNTY
LOCATION OR BATTLE ZONE: AIR DROP SUNCHON - SUKCHON
TOWN OR AREA: OPA-RI
BURIAL LOCATION
ELMWOOD CEMETERY, COLUMBIA, SC
Comments: Corporal Galloway was a member of the 187th Airborne Infantry Regimental Combat Team. He was Killed in Action while fighting the enemy in North Korea on October 21, 1950.
Corporal Galloway was awarded the Purple Heart, the Combat Infantryman Badge, the Korean Service Medal, the United Nations Service Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Korean Presidential Unit Citation and the Republic of Korea War Service Medal.
KOREAN WAR PROJECT KEY NO: 10171
See Memorial #132986169 for final interment.
David Louis Galloway
His obituary says he was a native of Florence, South Carolina; military sources have his place of birth as Wilson county, North Carolina. His parents were Charles Friendly Galloway and Mary Leila Jones Galloway Driver from Florence county, and his siblings were born in Florence. I think he was also born in Florence.
His mother was residing in North Carolina at the time of his enlistment.
His obituary and his stone give his age as 16. A 16 year old and a corporal seem unlikely, but apparently is true.
----------
Cpl Galloway's Funeral Tuesday
Military funeral services for Cpl David Lewis Galloway, 16 year old Florence and Manning soldier who was killed in action in Korea in 1950, will be conducted at 3 o'clock Tuesday afternoon from the graveside in Elmwood Cemetery.
The young soldier, the son of Mrs Mary J Driver of Columbia, was temporarily interred in the United Nations Military Cemetery near Pyongyang, North Korea, but was returned to the United States government by the Communists during a mutual exchange.
Services Tuesday will be conducted by a chaplain from Fort Jackson and the Rev V M Forrester, pastor of the Ridgecrest Baptist Church. Appropriate military honors are scheduled.
Young Galloway was born in Florence, but was a member of the First Baptist Church at Manning.
Survivors include his mother; two sisters, Miss Mildred Virginia Galloway of Columbia and Mrs Mary Ruth Leafendol of Orangeburg; two brothers, James Edward Galloway of Florence and Charles Galloway of Florida; and his maternal grandfather, Lonnie L Jones of Johnsonville.
The body is scheduled to arrive in Columbia at 6:40 Tuesday morning.
The State; Date: 02-07-1955; Page: 7; Location: Columbia, South Carolina
∼CPL DAVID LOUIS GALLOWAY
187TH AIRBORNE REGIMENTAL COMBAT TEAM
I CO 3 BN
REGIMENTAL COMBAT TEAM
ARMY
HOSTILE, DIED (KIA)
DATE OF LOSS: OCTOBER 21, 1950
SERVICE NUMBER: RA14313995
BORN: NOVEMBER 26, 1931
HOME OR PLACE OF ENLISTMENT
COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA
RICHLAND COUNTY
LOCATION OR BATTLE ZONE: AIR DROP SUNCHON - SUKCHON
TOWN OR AREA: OPA-RI
BURIAL LOCATION
ELMWOOD CEMETERY, COLUMBIA, SC
Comments: Corporal Galloway was a member of the 187th Airborne Infantry Regimental Combat Team. He was Killed in Action while fighting the enemy in North Korea on October 21, 1950.
Corporal Galloway was awarded the Purple Heart, the Combat Infantryman Badge, the Korean Service Medal, the United Nations Service Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Korean Presidential Unit Citation and the Republic of Korea War Service Medal.
KOREAN WAR PROJECT KEY NO: 10171
See Memorial #132986169 for final interment.
David Louis Galloway
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South Carolina
CPL 187 ABN Infantry RTC
Korea PH
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